Plane Tales

The Grade 2 Listed Centrifuge


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A recent news programme caught my eye when I realised it involved our great friends at the Farnborough Aviation Sciences Trust museum. It reminded me of the group of sadistic so-called doctors who populated the Institute of Aviation Medicine and tortured generations of unsuspecting and innocent RAF aircrew in machines such as the one the article featured, a centrifuge! This aforementioned device which resembles a vast witch’s ducking stool crossed with an iron maiden, first operated in 1955 but was decommissioned as recently as 2019 and has now received Grade 2 protection.

 

The Institute of Aviation Medicine

 

The Farnborough Centrifuge

 

The Cecil Hotel with it’s red and white ornate frontage

 

The august medical journal, the Lancet

 

Early versions of oxygen masks

 

An early mobile decompression chamber

 

Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the RAF, FAST museum, The Library of Congress, those images within the Public Domain and the National Museum of Health & Medicine.

 

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